SWISS FLOWERS. Q7 



48. Senecio. 



(PLATE XXVIL) 



Groundsel (S. vulgaris) is little prized, except by the 

 owners of canaries ; but there are many other species of 

 Senecio, and much more handsome ones, in England. 



The pretty S. incanus (Fig. 48) is not found wild with us, 

 and only on high mountains in Switzerland. There its 

 silvery-silky leaves, much and unequally divided, are 

 mingled with the low patches of Gentian and Viola calca- 

 rata, in a way which no carpet-gardening can equal, while 

 the blossoms, of an orange-yellow, rise about three inches 

 above them. The flowers grow in a dense corymb, looking 

 like a single head of blossom. Some of the florets have 

 large petals, which give the plant rather the appearance 

 of a head of Candytuft. Great St. Bernard, Chamounix, 

 Jardin, Mer de Glace, Mont Baet, Mont Cenis, Mont Gott- 

 hard. Alp Glaronens, Pennino, Riffel. 



49. Achillaea. 



(PLATE XXVIII.) 



This is not in general a very striking family, but includes 

 the Yarrow, one of our commonest plants. A. nana 



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